Is Metal Gear Solid 4 any good?

[Morgoth]

Oh god. This game is so hilarious. First I thought the dancing Metal Gear MKII was funny, but then I met Akiba, the farting rookie. I just couldn't hold myself anymore.... The badass FROGS were attacking, and Akiba farted like there was no tomorrow, and I laughed and laughed and Akiba farted.... boy my stomach now hurts from laughing. I need a break. At any rate, this is an awesome game!

[Llyranor]

Man, you console fanboy.

[Morgoth]

Man, you console fanboy.

You're just bitter because your Coop partner can't fart!

[Calax]

Oh god. This game is so hilarious. First I thought the dancing Metal Gear MKII was funny, but then I met Akiba, the farting rookie. I just couldn't hold myself anymore.... The badass FROGS were attacking, and Akiba farted like there was no tomorrow, and I laughed and laughed and Akiba farted.... boy my stomach now hurts from laughing. I need a break. At any rate, this is an awesome game!

actually he craps himself in that fight.

[Morgoth]

Oh god. This game is so hilarious. First I thought the dancing Metal Gear MKII was funny, but then I met Akiba, the farting rookie. I just couldn't hold myself anymore.... The badass FROGS were attacking, and Akiba farted like there was no tomorrow, and I laughed and laughed and Akiba farted.... boy my stomach now hurts from laughing. I need a break. At any rate, this is an awesome game!

actually he craps himself in that fight.

Well I didn't pay that close attention, but thanks for pointing that out.

[Llyranor]

Man, you console fanboy.

You're just bitter because your Coop partner can't fart!

Yeah, we decided to pass on Fable II

[Morgoth]

Two questions:

 

1) Why does Snake suffer under accelerated aging?

2) How do I get new weapons? I bought one at the store via the MKII, but it wasn't in my inventory. So I probably have to drag my ass to some location. Where can I get my ware?

[Purkake]

Snake is suffering from accelerated aging because he is a clone. Also check wikipedia, but beware of spoilers.

[Nikolas]

1 - Snake is a clone, created from the genes of Big Boss (old war hero, protagonist of MGS3), as a tool of war. It's a side-effect of that. It'll get clearer later on I think.

2 - You don't have to go anywhere. You just have to Equip the weapon from the Weapons menu. Then you'll have it in the R2 menu.

[Calax]

Like they said snake is a clone, and thus in order to keep him from becoming a tool of anyone else his creators changed his dna so that after X amount of time he'd deteriorate... It's ultimatly explained in Act II.

[Morgoth]

Naomi... Cleavage! Trivia: The moment Naomi asked Snake to undress, my PS3 fan fully turned up. What a hilarious moment.

 

Anyway, I'm now about to kill that laughing Octopus woman. What a wicked thing. I managed to shrink her health bar about 2/3, but she still manages to kick my ass. Any useful tips out there?

[Hell Kitty]

Don't kill her, use tranqs.

[Calax]

Naomi... Cleavage! Trivia: The moment Naomi asked Snake to undress, my PS3 fan fully turned up. What a hilarious moment.

 

Anyway, I'm now about to kill that laughing Octopus woman. What a wicked thing. I managed to shrink her health bar about 2/3, but she still manages to kick my ass. Any useful tips out there?

Thermal eye will allow you to see her in her hiding spots.

 

And if you tranq her during the "beauty" phase of the fight theres a statue of her underneath the bed. You collect those statues (one for tranqing each boss and one for tranqing the frogs) and you get the Solar Gun. an instant ko gun that's got unlimited ammo. (doesn't put them to sleep just knocks them into star land)

[Morgoth]

I didn't have trouble finding her actually, but what's that crap with the tranquilizer darts? Didn't do anything to that wicked monster. It was helpful for the FROGS though. Anyway, she's now gone, and I finsihed Act 2. That Vamp vs. Raiden fight was really awesome, and I mean generally the cutscenes are the best directed I've seen anywhere. This game definitely deserves more hype and respect. Now I'm in Eastern Europe, it's really well modeled.

I better go and take some closer look to Matthews link again. I feel I really missed out a lot by not playing the predecessors. Oh btw, was the younger Snake the protagonist in the previous games, or wasn't that some different guy?

Edited December 5, 2008 by Morgoth

[Calax]

I didn't have trouble finding her actually, but what's that crap with the tranquilizer darts? Didn't do anything to that wicked monster. It was helpful for the FROGS though. Anyway, she's now gone, and I finsihed Act 2. That Vamp vs. Raiden fight was really awesome, and I mean generally the cutscenes are the best directed I've seen anywhere. This game definitely deserves more hype and respect. Now I'm in Eastern Europe, it's really well modeled.

I better go and take some closer look to Matthews link again. I feel I really missed out a lot by not playing the predecessors. Oh btw, was the younger Snake the protagonist in the previous games, or wasn't that some different guy?

the "young" snake was the protagonist in Metal Gears 1 & 2 and Solid 1 in Metal Gear solid 2 Raiden was the protagonist, then they went back in time 30-40 years to the 70's and did a game about Big Boss (who's the spitting image of Snake) the story is convoluted to say the least

[Diogo Ribeiro]

I didn't have trouble finding her actually, but what's that crap with the tranquilizer darts? Didn't do anything to that wicked monster. It was helpful for the FROGS though. Anyway, she's now gone, and I finsihed Act 2. That Vamp vs. Raiden fight was really awesome, and I mean generally the cutscenes are the best directed I've seen anywhere. This game definitely deserves more hype and respect. Now I'm in Eastern Europe, it's really well modeled.

I better go and take some closer look to Matthews link again. I feel I really missed out a lot by not playing the predecessors. Oh btw, was the younger Snake the protagonist in the previous games, or wasn't that some different guy?

the "young" snake was the protagonist in Metal Gears 1 & 2 and Solid 1 in Metal Gear solid 2 Raiden was the protagonist, then they went back in time 30-40 years to the 70's and did a game about Big Boss (who's the spitting image of Snake) the story is convoluted to say the least

 

Also, if you ever feel like playing the really old ones - for curiosity on how the gameplay evolved or the story and characters were - avoid the NES games like the plague and go for the MSX versions. While the NES Metal Gear is fairly spot on in comparison to the MSX title, the second was an atrocious action shooter that had nothing to do with the series. And with a villain called Higharolla ****amamy, you can guess why.

[Morgoth]

I didn't have trouble finding her actually, but what's that crap with the tranquilizer darts? Didn't do anything to that wicked monster. It was helpful for the FROGS though. Anyway, she's now gone, and I finsihed Act 2. That Vamp vs. Raiden fight was really awesome, and I mean generally the cutscenes are the best directed I've seen anywhere. This game definitely deserves more hype and respect. Now I'm in Eastern Europe, it's really well modeled.

I better go and take some closer look to Matthews link again. I feel I really missed out a lot by not playing the predecessors. Oh btw, was the younger Snake the protagonist in the previous games, or wasn't that some different guy?

the "young" snake was the protagonist in Metal Gears 1 & 2 and Solid 1 in Metal Gear solid 2 Raiden was the protagonist, then they went back in time 30-40 years to the 70's and did a game about Big Boss (who's the spitting image of Snake) the story is convoluted to say the least

 

Also, if you ever feel like playing the really old ones - for curiosity on how the gameplay evolved or the story and characters were - avoid the NES games like the plague and go for the MSX versions. While the NES Metal Gear is fairly spot on in comparison to the MSX title, the second was an atrocious action shooter that had nothing to do with the series. And with a villain called Higharolla ****amamy, you can guess why.

He, it's funny. I just finished Act 3, and now I play a mission that apparently was on the PSX - with the original PSX MGS. Quite neat. I didn't know the PS3 could run PSX games.

 

Anyway, let's just say this game blows me away. I don't know how much that game costed to make and how many people were involved, but the production values, cinematic artistry and characters deepness are just years ahead of what we usually consider "Next-Gen" in our typical western-world made game.

 

MGS 4 is truly a masterwork! An achievement! I got a lot respect for the Japs from now on.

 

Now I need some rest. After defeating that hideous flying Robo-Raven, escaping a bunch of Gekko's on a motorbike and watching a dramatic 90 min cutscene (Snake got the crap beaten out by Liquid), I really have to put down the controller and compose myself.

 

Does anyone know if there'll be a MGS 5?

[Nick_i_am]

90 minute cutscene!

[Llyranor]

Shut up, Nick. Don't diss character deepness.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

MGS4 made me feel nostalgia near the end without ever playing any game in the series, and a bit sad too, even if I didn't understand anything.

 

That takes some serious cinematic skill.

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

MGS4 made me feel nostalgia near the end without ever playing any game in the series, and a bit sad too, even if I didn't understand anything.

 

That takes some serious cinematic skill.

[Hell Kitty]

Does anyone know if there'll be a MGS 5?

 

Yes, but all that's known at this point is that Kojima won't be involved. There is also this, which some think will be an Xbox port of MGS4, others think it'll be a new AC!D.

[Calax]

Kojima wants to move on from MGS. That's why he took everything he could and tied it in a knot at the end of MGS4. I'm hoping he goes back to Zone of the Enders (an awesome mecha game) or moves on to another franchise.

[Hell Kitty]

Apparently he wants to do another ZoE or Snatcher.

[Pop]

The Metal Gear Solids are done for. Metal Gear will remain to be exploited by Konami. Kojima's right-hand man was supposed to take over MGS a few iterations ago but Kojima just couldn't keep himself out of it. He still might not be able to.